Premier League predictions: Lawro v Creed II star and Everton fan Dolph Lundgren
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Mark Lawrenson is a true heavyweight when it comes to Premier League predictions - but how will he fare against Ivan Drago?
His guest this week is actor Dolph Lundgren, who is reprising his famous role as the ruthless Russian boxer in his new film Creed II - and has told Lawro "I will break you with my football scores".
In Rocky IV, Drago got his one prediction correct when he famously told Apollo Creed "you will lose" before his first fight - but will he do as well at picking who will win this weekend?
A shock in the Merseyside derby? Actor Dolph Lundgren's predictions
As Drago, Dolph went toe-to-toe in the ring with Sylvester Stallone - who later adopted Everton as his English team, external - and it turns out Lundgren is also a Toffees fan.
Lundgren, who was a goalkeeper as a boy, explained: "Everton were my team back in the day - this was a long time ago in the late 1970s when I lived in Sweden and before I moved to the United States aged 17.
"I used to watch the World Cup too, when Germany were very good and Franz Beckenbauer and those guys were the stars.
"Sweden did very well in Russia last summer and I watched quite a bit of that, but they had quite a boring team. I liked the Sweden team in 1994 in the US - they were good.
"With the English Premier League, I don't have that many memories. I have to re-watch stuff to remember who I was rooting for."
Premier League predictions - week 14 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Result | Lawro | Dolph | |
FRIDAY | |||
Cardiff v Wolves | 2-1 | 1-1 | 2-0 |
SATURDAY | |||
Crystal Palace v Burnley | 2-0 | 1-0 | 0-1 |
Huddersfield v Brighton | 1-2 | 1-0 | 3-2 |
Leicester v Watford | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-1 |
Man City v Bournemouth | 3-1 | 3-0 | 3-1 |
Newcastle v West Ham | 0-3 | 2-0 | 2-1 |
Southampton v Man Utd | 2-2 | 0-2 | 1-0 |
SUNDAY | |||
Chelsea v Fulham | 2-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
Arsenal v Tottenham | 4-2 | 1-2 | 2-2 |
Liverpool v Everton | 1-0 | 2-0 | 0-3 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless stated.
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
How did Lawro do last time?
Before the international break, Lawro got four correct results, with no perfect scores, from 10 matches for a total of 40 points.
He was beaten by Marcus Mumford and Winston Marshall from rock band Mumford & Sons who got six correct results, with no exact scores, for a total of 60 points.
Total scores after week 13 | |
|---|---|
Lawro | 1,060 |
Guests | 960 |
Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
P13 | W5 | D2 | L6 |
+/- DENOTE POSITION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAWRO'S TABLE AND ACTUAL POSITION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | +/- | |
=1 | Man City | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
=1 | Man Utd | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 35 | +6 |
3 | Liverpool | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 27 | -1 |
4 | Leicester | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 26 | +6 |
5 | Tottenham | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 23 | -2 |
6 | Chelsea | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 22 | -2 |
7 | Everton | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 21 | -1 |
8 | Arsenal | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 20 | -3 |
9 | Newcastle | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | +4 |
10 | Fulham | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 17 | +10 |
11 | Bournemouth | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | -3 |
12 | Crystal Palace | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | +4 |
13 | Burnley | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | +4 |
=14 | Southampton | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 | +4 |
=14 | Watford | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 | -5 |
=14 | Wolves | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 | -3 |
17 | West Ham | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -3 |
18 | Brighton | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -6 |
19 | Cardiff | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
20 | Huddersfield | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | -5 |
GUEST LEADERBOARD 2018-19
SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
120 | Joe Thomas |
90 | Karl Pilkington, Chris Stark |
82 | Lawro (average after 13 weeks) |
80 | Richard Ashcroft, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg James, Mark Wahlberg |
60 | Idris Elba, Mumford & Sons |
50 | Bring Me The Horizon, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. |
40 | Tom Grennan |
Lawro's best score: 260 points (week seven v Karl Pilkington)
Lawro's worst score: 40 points (week three v Idris Elba, week eight v Chris Stark and week 12 v Mumford & Sons)